The main reason why Americans were able to overthrow the English government and create a democratic republic while many Latin Americans failed to create and maintain democratic governments is that these were two different historical processes.
Thus, while the American Revolution had its origin in a specific problem in the colonies, which was that of the taxes established by the British crown and the malaise generated in America by such a situation; Latin American revolutions occurred due to the power vacuum that occurred after Napoleon's conquest of Spain, that is, for a reason that was external to that of the colonies.
This, in turn, prevented a historical revolutionary process from taking place in the Latin American case, which led to independence without a clear objective in many cases, which was the catalyst for subsequent political conflicts in these nations.
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